129. 1929:
Canton, Ont.    October 31, 1929

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My dear A.L.P.,

Received your note on my last trip to the P.O. here. No; I was in Ottawa last week and find that the very last chance had evaporated. Eayrs has left me in the lurch as nobody has ever done before. We leave tomorrow morning: I have engaged to deliver a few lectures for the Ontario Library Association; after that, probably, a half dozen Canadian Club lectures. Beyond that I know nothing except that on Nov 29 U.S.A. royalties are due, sufficient to buy the tickets to Europe . Nothing short of a miracle, it seems, can prevent that. My leaving is such, now, that even if I were willing to teach again, I could not do it. Nothing else has opened up.

Mrs. G. received Mrs. P.'s letter and has been intending to answer it ever since. But, not having a roof over our heads, I suppose, she hesitates. She may write from "over there." To me, all this is tragedy unspeakable. However.

As for the furniture, I hesitate about putting a price on it: it seems to be the last bond connecting me with the West or with Canada . Let it go for the time being. My books and a few more things stand, boxed and crated, in a stable at Rapid City . I don't know what to do with them. However.use what you've got here, by all means.

Should, against all expectation, something turn up to stay us, I'll let you know. Tell Kirk I thank him for the prompt reply to my questions.

As ever,
F.P.G.